This is a live world writing story about my stay as visiting scholar at the Department of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign with Professor Norman Denzin during the Fall of 2012. It is a story about open-science economy safespaces otherplace learning and benefiting from uncertainty and confusion and the love of adventure and jazz. It is a story about the bike with the pink tires leaning calmly against the wall of the ROTC Building, guarding the gate against invaders, and growing deeper shades of red as the weather shifts.